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SUBMITTER: Huart M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5367396 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huart Michael M Bedubourg Gabriel G Abat Cédric C Colson Philippe P Rolain Jean Marc JM Chaudet Hervé H Fournier Pierre Edouard PE Raoult Didier D Deparis Xavier X
Emerging infectious diseases 20170401 4
We describe the implementation of an automated infectious disease surveillance system that uses data collected from 210 microbiologic laboratories throughout the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in France. Each week, these facilities report bacterial species that have been isolated from patients in their area. An alarm is triggered whenever the case count for a bacterial species infection exceeds 2 SDs of the historical mean for that species at the participating laboratory. At its inception in ...[more]